An unidentified aircraft that was shot down by Israeli air force in the south Mount Hebron area appeared to be Iranian-made aimed at penetrating the Dimona nuclear reactor possibly to examine targeting the plant in a future attack, Israeli media reported on Sunday.

Military spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Avital Leibovich later told reporters: “This drone was spotted over the Mediterranean in a sector near the Gaza Strip before entering Israeli airspace, where the air force followed it.”

“It was followed from the beginning until the time it was decided to intercept it and shoot it down for operational reasons over the Yatir Forest in the northern Negev, an uninhabited region.”

Israel was not aware that Hezbollah had advanced technology necessary to operate a drone over a long distance, the website reported, adding the military was trying to determine whether the drone was remotely controlled from a Lebanon-based command center or if it was controlled by space-based satellite navigation system (GPS). If It turns out that it was controlled by GPS, the drone was likely meant to return to its base or explode over the sea.

Israeli is also afraid that unmanned aircrafts will likely be used in suicide missions by its enemies, such as Hezbollah and Iran. “In the next war Syrian and Iranian drones will also be sent on ‘suicide’ missions,” a senior Air Force official recently told Ynet.

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